Experts Debate Whether ‘Wokeness’ Has Peaked

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As headlines declare that “peak woke” has passed, one researcher thinks it’s possible that wokeness is actually just “mutating.”
“The jury is still out in terms of whether the Great Awokening is winding down,” David Rozado, an associate professor in New Zealand, wrote in a Feb. 24 Twitter post.
Rozado’s research in computational social science at the New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology is shaping an ongoing debate over whether wokeness is in decline.
“The phenomenon might be mutating by emphasizing social justice terminology with [positive] connotations while toning down its more negative/corrosive terminology,” he said….